Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>Cindy Hamilton
>> >Brooklyn1 wrote:
>> >>la llorona wrote:
>> >> >jmcquown wrote:
>> >> >>Brooklyn1 wrote:
>> >> >>>Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> >> >>>>Brooklyn1 wrote:
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>>> $10/hr for minimum wage entry level jobs for a person with minimal
>> >> >>>>> education and no skills is darn good money... how much would you pay
>> >> >>>>> for someone to sweep your floors, dust your shelves, and retrieve
>> >> >>>>> shopping carts...
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>> I pay my housecleaner about $40 per hour.

ABOUT? You don't know?
Probably a typo, you meant about $4 per hour.

>> >> If I were paid $40/hr to clean a house I'd bust my butt to make it
>> >> spotless, I'd even work overtime for straight pay; I'd launder
>> >> clothes, detail your car, scrub bathrooms, I'd even clean your cat's
>> >> litter pans and cook for you too, same as everything I do at home, for
>> >> $40/hr I'd mow your lawn and trim m'lady's bush! LOL
>> >> Around here people get paid between $10-$15 an hour to clean house.
>> >
>> >Prices for everything are much higher here, including housecleaning.
>> >The average price per square foot of single-family housing in Ann Arbor
>> >is $180. How does that compare with your area?
>>
>> That's ludicrous, the price of real estate has absolutely nothing to
>> do with the pay rate for house cleaning.
>
>The price of real estate is a reflection of the cost of living, which
>is an indicator of wages.

For skilled labor yes, for unskilled labor no. You're only
considering your little plastic microcosm world of cookie cutter
housing. Where I live lots of folks live on very expenssive real
estate yet wouldn't pay more for a house cleaner than if they lived in
an inner city slum apt. Farm folks are extremely frugal, they could
be breeding race horses on a $20,000,000.00 property consisting of a
few hundred acres and they would never pay $40/hr for someone to clean
their terlits, they wouldn't pay $40/hr for someone to muck horseshit
from their stables either... they have no need to impress people by
boasting how much they pay their house cleaner... how gauche. Folks
with absurd tales about how they pay $40/hr for someone to clean
their house very likely doesn't have a house cleaner, most likely they
don't have a house, they live in a one room basement hovel in the
sleaziest part of town... in fact they clean houses for $10/hr and
dream about how they're worth $40/hr.

>> I can assure you the price
>> of real estate in NY is substantially higher than in MI... why would
>> anyone want to move to MI anyway, there's nothing there but a lot of
>> desolate nothingness... I wouldn't live in MI if someone gave me a
>> house for free including a house cleaner... she'd need to have the
>> most magnificent mammaries to attract me to live in that wilderness.
>
>Good. We don't want you here. You're far too provincial.
>Cindy Hamilton

Hah! The most provincial are those who make outragiously exaggerated
claims about that which they'll never need to prove, ie. "I cook
everything from scratch"... if only they bathed occasionally they'd
not need to constantly scratch their infested behinds. Next you are
going to claim how you give your house cleaner a paid lunch hour and
to help herself to your White Gold caviar:
http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/at...sive-food.html